Sacred Heart RC Primary School Westhoughton Sticky Learning Year Group: 6 Subject: Geography Area of Learning: What can we learn Vocabulary: Counties, from the events in Westhoughton during factories , natural resources, pollution, urban and rural, 1812 (Visit local area) mechanisation Question Answer 1. Is Westhoughton a village, a town or a town city? 2. Westhoughton is a ‘civil parish’, what a civil parish is a unit of local government. does that mean? Civil parishes are the lowest tier of local government, below districts and counties. It is an administrative parish, in comparison to an ecclesiastical (church) parish. 3. Westhoughton is a civil parish of where? civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester 4. Manchester is what kind of county? An administrative county 5. Name 2 towns we are close to Bolton and Wigan 6. Name 2 cities we are close to Manchester and Liverpool 7. What county is Westhoughton in? Lancashire ( known as historic/ancient/traditional counties) 8. What natural resource helped to shape coal Westhoughton’s development? 9. What kind of factories were there? cotton-spinning and textile manufacture. 10. If something is manufactured what does it mean? 1. the making of articles on a large scale using machinery; industrial production. 11. Westhoughton incorporates several Westhoughton incorporates several former villages and hamlets. Can you name 5? villages and hamlets which have their own distinctive character, sports traditions and amenities including railway stations. They include Wingates (famous for the Wingates Band), White Horse, Over Hulton, Four Gates (or Fourgates), Chequerbent, which was all but destroyed by the building of the M61 motorway, Hunger Hill, Snydale, Hart Common, Marsh Brook, Daisy Hill and Dobb Brow. 12. Define the term rural In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities 13. Define the term urban An urban area, or built-up area, is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. 14. How would you describe Mostly urban Westhoughton, urban or rural? 15. Are there any rural parts of Dobb Brow Westhoughton? 16. How would you describe Westhoughton Today it is predominantly a residential town now? 17. Mechanisation did eventually grow and The Luddites develop in Westhoughton but initially EXTRA INFORMATION there was strong resistence by whom? ‘On the 24 April 1812 a group of Luddites torched a Westhoughton mill, owned by Wray & Duncroff, in one of the first major terrorist acts in Britain. Twelve people were arrested on the orders of William Hulton, the High Sheriff of Lancashire. Four of them, James Smith, Thomas Kerfoot, John (or Job) Fletcher and Abraham Charlston, were sentenced to death for taking part in the attack. The Charlston family claimed Abraham was only twelve years old but he was not reprieved. They were publicly hanged outside Lancaster Castle on the 13 June 1812. It was reported that Abraham cried for his mother on the scaffold.’ Luddism was an attempt to resist mechanisation in some aspects of textile manufacture, and the burning down of the Westhoughton mill was one of its most noted and violent manifestations. 18. What do you understand Factories with looms, powered by a steam ‘mechanisation’ to mean at this time? engine A loom: A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry 19. Define pollution the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. .